Today is our last day in Jinan and it truly feels as if the time has flown by. Tomorrow we fly back to HK and by mid-afternoon the Missions Trip will be over and you will all have your wonderful U'th back home. Today was scheduled as a "Fun Day" – a trek outside the city to the mountains with a nice hike and beautiful views. Instead it was wet and cloudy and very cold, very very cold – we even experienced some freezing rain and at the top of the mountain we even had some very light flurries of snow. For most of the day it was just above 0C although with the wind chill most students thought if felt much much colder. We shared coats and passed out extra clothes (neither Tre nor Ian were able to come due to medical issues – so their coats and extra layers were passed onto others) and the Union U'th made the best of it. After lunch the view cleared and we got some gorgeous pictures and the walk down was much easier than the walk up – although the line for the cable car was long (an hour wait) the U'th huddled together to keep warm and several were singing (to the amusement of the Mainland crowd in line with us – with one older gentlemen behind me commenting that we must all enjoy K-TV :-). Below are a few pics from today –

(1) This morning – starting out in the rain
(2) On the trail – notice how cloudy it is. The mountain peak is around 1,500 Meters or almost 5,000 Feet – so we were essentially in the clouds.
(3) At the Peak! It was cold/light flurries.
(4) Walking back down
(5) U'th in line for Cable Car